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hackthis_archive) wrote2005-07-18 10:07 am
hackthis_archive) wrote2005-07-18 10:07 am
Keep your racist bullshit out my fucking face.
I knew someone else's ignorant shit was going to set me off. I fucking knew it.
Let's all just put it out on the table.
Blaise Zabini is BLACK.
Black, people. That means, not blue or purple, not white, not green or yellow or in posession of fins, wings, webbed feet or any other descriptor, but BLACK. He's English, but you know, he's black. Not African American, just black. He can't actually be thought of as, I don't know, BRITISH! because he's black. It's nice to know that nothing's really changed. It's nice to know that when people see you they just see the color of your skin. It doesn't matter that it's your name. Clearly all races should be identifiable by name, because black people are all named Michael Jordan or Shaquille O'Neal or Craig David or Monifah or something.
Apparently, some people now believe that this is the end of the world, because heaven forbid a black person be hot. No, of course not.
There are no hot black people anywhere in the world. There's no Denzel Washington, Thandie Newton, Don Cheadle, Sophie Okenedo. There's no Angela Bassett, no Delroy Lindo, no Taye Diggs or Omar Epps or Mekhi Phifer. No Beyonce or Mos Def or Talib Kweli or Gabrielle Union or Boris Kudjoe or Nia Long.
No.
Obviously Blaise is now tainted because he's black. He can't be hot at all. And oh look, JKR made a joke with his mother about her being a black widow. It's all racially motivated though. I can see how Blaise must now be hideous and deformed. Heaven forbid Draco find him attractive. Heaven forbid that he actually have a brain because black people can't be talented except for in sports, and they can't be smart or make a honest living unless it's in music. I can see how Oprah and Nelson Mandela and Bill Cosby and every black MP or congressman is just affirmative action or a fluke.
And people say that racism is all gone.
Fuck that. And fuck you if this is your mindset.
I don't need your ignorant bullshit.
But don't worry. I'm not upset. I see how it is. It's always good to know where you stand. And no, this is not the part where everyone says 'I never thought that!' because if you did, ask your self would you even admit it?
Let's all just put it out on the table.
Blaise Zabini is BLACK.
Black, people. That means, not blue or purple, not white, not green or yellow or in posession of fins, wings, webbed feet or any other descriptor, but BLACK. He's English, but you know, he's black. Not African American, just black. He can't actually be thought of as, I don't know, BRITISH! because he's black. It's nice to know that nothing's really changed. It's nice to know that when people see you they just see the color of your skin. It doesn't matter that it's your name. Clearly all races should be identifiable by name, because black people are all named Michael Jordan or Shaquille O'Neal or Craig David or Monifah or something.
Apparently, some people now believe that this is the end of the world, because heaven forbid a black person be hot. No, of course not.
There are no hot black people anywhere in the world. There's no Denzel Washington, Thandie Newton, Don Cheadle, Sophie Okenedo. There's no Angela Bassett, no Delroy Lindo, no Taye Diggs or Omar Epps or Mekhi Phifer. No Beyonce or Mos Def or Talib Kweli or Gabrielle Union or Boris Kudjoe or Nia Long.
No.
Obviously Blaise is now tainted because he's black. He can't be hot at all. And oh look, JKR made a joke with his mother about her being a black widow. It's all racially motivated though. I can see how Blaise must now be hideous and deformed. Heaven forbid Draco find him attractive. Heaven forbid that he actually have a brain because black people can't be talented except for in sports, and they can't be smart or make a honest living unless it's in music. I can see how Oprah and Nelson Mandela and Bill Cosby and every black MP or congressman is just affirmative action or a fluke.
And people say that racism is all gone.
Fuck that. And fuck you if this is your mindset.
I don't need your ignorant bullshit.
But don't worry. I'm not upset. I see how it is. It's always good to know where you stand. And no, this is not the part where everyone says 'I never thought that!' because if you did, ask your self would you even admit it?
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(I must admit, I laughed like a drain - because, okay, some of us had Blaise down as male, and some down as female, but precious few had him down as black. Nice one, JK.)
I'm sorry that Trade is Jossed in a sense, but it doesn't make a difference to the hotness or the loveliness of the story. Just moves it that tiny bit further AU.
...It *is* conceivable that this is all she meant, the girl who made the post - that she'd built up some very specific & cherished image which is now thoroughly jossed, and she just phrased it in a spectacularly making-herself-sound-like-a-tosser kind of way. Same as if her image had been of Girl!Blaise, and now here was the evidence that he's a boy. (Which, fwiw, I'd got him down as a girl in ItS. But I really could care less one way or the other, you know?) But. Yeah. She certainly sounds like a racist twat, whether she actually is or isn't. And I'm probably trying too hard to find a good way of looking at what she said.
Fairly gobsmacked that anyone could be all "Oh no!" from the canonical description of him as a snooty babe. He sounds like Naomi Campbell's hot little wizard brother.
(I have to say, the concept of Draco/Blaise just got a whole lot hotter for me. This is probably very shallow, but the chiarascuro visuals - pretty. Very very pretty.
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I think this is possible.
She certainly sounds like a racist twat, whether she actually is or isn't.
She is, according to her userinfo, in HS. That is *not*, I repeat, *not* a pass to be racist. However, in HS I was all "you can be gay, I just don't wanna hear about it" and now I'm all like "bring on the ladies *and* the mens!" Let's hope she evolves.
::shrugs:: She probably needed the cluestick she got, which she actually admits. Regrettable that it came with an added threat of anal rape.